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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTucker Carlson: Obama’s Secret Service detail should lose guns first if he wants gun control
On Saturdays edition of Fox & Friends, Carlson suggested that the president had used the recent massacre at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston to advance a political agenda against guns.
The president has said a number of times guns are the problem, guns cause violence, Carlson complained. Theres nobody in the world surrounded by more armed people than President Obama himself. I notice hes not suggesting the people around him disarm. He wants to remain protected, but the rest of us have to go without means to self-protection.
Left-leaning Fox News contributor Jehmu Greene found Carlsons remarks offense.
To say that the president of the United States is hypocritical because he has people with guns around him, Tucker, that is beneath this discussion, Green explained. You are trying to compared Secret Service armed people to someone who walks into a church and kills nine people.
And to say the president doesnt have a right to talk about gun control because people with him have guns? she continued. Is that literally where we are as a country, to compare that he shouldnt have protection?
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/tucker-carlson-obamas-secret-service-detail-should-lose-guns-first-if-he-wants-gun-control/
malaise
(269,038 posts)of vile, despicable human beings.
Fuck him - any which way!!
onecaliberal
(32,862 posts)I call him the same thing. Epic piece of absolute shit.
City Lights
(25,171 posts)He is one of the biggest wankers in the GOPee.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)The mentality of lunatics.
Maeve
(42,282 posts)That is NOT so true for the rest of us, for the most part. Or is he thinking more people of color (except the President) should be armed and dangerous??
Spazito
(50,359 posts)BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)From a couple years' back:
http://www.mediaite.com/online/fox-news-decision-not-to-fire-jehmu-greene-angers-the-right/
As for Carlson, the only thing Gore Vidal found of interest:
"What's a 'Tucker'?"
rurallib
(62,420 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)n/t
djean111
(14,255 posts)kimbutgar
(21,157 posts)Paladin
(28,264 posts)The same goes for any of the rest of you out there who think that this U.S. President ought to do without armed Secret Service protection. Funny, I never saw that sort of asinine suggestion turn up, until we had a black President in the White House. Tucker Carlson is a drooling moron---but I bet he has all the guns he wants, given his white, wealthy and connected status.
Baitball Blogger
(46,730 posts)Does he even understand what a public figure is? And how that raises the stakes for an individual? Is Tucker too stupid to understand that there are people out there that shoot public figures just to get attention? i.e. His beloved Ronnie got shot by someone who wanted to impress Jodie Foster.
I am so tired at the level of stupidity that pundits are allowed to get away with.